"was the 9th most popular name given to baby girls in 1984, but only 235th in 2014. Rachel (given name) Rachel (); also spelled Rachael, meaning ""ewe"") is a feminine given name. It is best known as the name of Biblical Rachel. The name ranks in the top hundred most popular names for girls in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, and Australia as well as in Israel. According to United States Social Security card applications in 2005, the name Rachel ranked 38th out of the top 100 names chosen by parents for their baby girls. Statistics for England"
"Rachel Rachel (; meaning ewe) was a Biblical figure best known for her infertility. The site revered as her burial place (Rachel's Tomb) is one of the holiest sites in Judaism. Rachel was the favorite of Jacob's two wives, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel. Rachel's father was Laban. Her older sister was Leah, Jacob's first wife. Her aunt Rebekah was Jacob's mother. Rachel is first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in when Jacob happens upon her as she is about to water her father's flock. She was the"
"of Zelzah in the land of the Tribe of Benjamin (First Book of Samuel, chapter 10, v. 2). Despite not being named in the Quran, Rachel (, Rāḥīl) is honored in Islam as the wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph, who are frequently mentioned by name in the Qur'an as ""Ya‘qūb"" () and ""Yūsuf"" (), respectively. Rachel Rachel (; meaning ewe) was a Biblical figure best known for her infertility. The site revered as her burial place (Rachel's Tomb) is one of the holiest sites in Judaism. Rachel was the favorite of Jacob's two wives, and the mother of"
"burial sites of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs of the Jewish Nation – Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah – are not part of its culture and tradition, then what is a national cultural site?"" In Jewish lore, Rachel was born on 11 Cheshvan 1553 BCE. Early Jewish scholars noticed an apparent contradiction in the Bible with regards to the location of Rachel's grave. In Genesis, the Bible states that Rachel was buried ""on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem."" Yet a reference to her tomb in Samuel states: ""When you go from me today, you will find"
"of stone in the place, poured a drink-offering and oil on it, and called the place Bethel. They left Bethel, and before they had come to Ephrath, Rachel went into a difficult labor. The midwife told her not to fear not, for this child would also be a son for her. And just before Rachel died, she named her son Ben-oni, but Jacob called him Benjamin. They buried Rachel on the road to Ephrath at Bethlehem, and Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. And Israel journeyed beyond Migdal-eder. While Israel dwelt in that land, Reuben lay with Jacob's"
"Rebecca (given name) Rebecca or Rebekah (Hebrew: רִבְקָה (""Rivkah"")) is a feminine given name originating from the Hebrew language. The name comes from the verb רבק (""rbq""), meaning ""to tie firmly""; Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names and the NOBS Study Bible Name List suggest the name means ""snare"", ""noose"", ""tied up"", ""secured"", and even ""beautifully ensnaring"". W. F. Albright held that it meant ""soil, earth"". Rebecca was the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau in the Hebrew Bible. The Latin Vulgate uses the spelling Rebecca exclusively and it is followed by (""ex. gr."") Wycliffe"
"Ephrath Ephrath or Ephrathah or Ephratah () is the name of a biblical place and a personal name meaning ""fruitful"". The first mention of Ephrath occurs in Genesis, in reference to the place where Rachel died giving birth to Benjamin and where she was buried on the road from Bethel. A very old tradition is that Ephrath refers to Bethlehem, and thus that she died on the way there, reflected by the ancient Tomb of Rachel at the city's entrance. Some modern scholars have placed this location closer to Bethel, in the vicinity of Ramallah, based on verses in Samuel"
"means ""son of the right"" (i.e., ""south""), since Benjamin was the only one of Jacob's sons born in Canaan, which is to the south of Paddan Aram; or it could mean ""son of my days"", as Benjamin was born in Jacob's old age. Rachel was buried on the road to Efrat, just outside Bethlehem, and not in the ancestral tomb at Machpelah. Today a site claimed to be Rachel's Tomb, located between Bethlehem and the Israeli settlement of Gilo, is visited by tens of thousands of visitors each year.. The Rachel's tomb is told to be in the ancient city"
"Rahab Rahab (; Arabic: رحاب, a vast space of a land) was, according to the Book of Joshua, a woman who lived in Jericho in the Promised Land and assisted the Israelites in capturing the city by betraying her people (). In the New Testament, she is lauded both as an example of a saint who lived by faith, and as someone ""considered righteous"" for her works. Although the King James Version renders the name as ""Rachab"" in Matthew 1:5, most modern versions render it as ""Rahab"" instead. Matthew's genealogy records her as one of the ancestors of Jesus. The"
"Bilhah Bilhah (בִּלְהָה ""unworried"", Standard Hebrew ""Bilha"", Tiberian Hebrew ""Bilhâ"") is a person mentioned in the Book of Genesis. describes her as Laban's handmaid, who was given to Rachel to be her handmaid on Rachel's marriage to Jacob. When Rachel failed to have children, Rachel gave Bilhah to Jacob ""to wife"" to bear him children. Bilhah gave birth to two sons, who Rachel claimed as her own and named Dan and Naphtali. expressly calls Bilhah Jacob's concubine, a ""pilegesh"". The Testament of Naftali says that Bilhah and Zilpah's father was named Rotheus. He was taken into captivity but redeemed by"
"came to Rachel's tent, she told her father, ""Let not my lord be angered that I cannot rise up before you, for the way of women is upon me"" (Genesis 31:35). Laban left her alone, but the curse Jacob had pronounced came true shortly thereafter. Near Ephrath, Rachel went into a difficult labor with her second son, Benjamin. The midwife told her in the middle of the birth that her child was a boy. Before she died, Rachel named her son Ben Oni (""son of my mourning""), but Jacob called him Ben Yamin (Benjamin). Rashi explains that Ben Yamin either"
"Leah (given name) The meaning of the name “Leah” is different in several languages, countries and cultures and has more than one possibly same or different meanings available. The name is likely to have Hebrew origins from Biblical times. It has the meaning of “wearied” or “grieved”. Many speculate that this meaning has to do with the circumstance of the most commonly know woman named Leah in the Old Testament. She was the first wife of Jacob and the older sister of Rachel, but because he was tricked into marrying her she was unloved her whole life despite the fact"
"a controversial resolution reaffirming a 2010 statement that Rachel's Tomb was: ""an integral part of Palestine."" On 22 October 2015, the tomb was separated from Bethlehem with a series of concrete barriers. Biblical scholarship identifies two different traditions in the Hebrew Bible concerning the site of Rachel's burial, respectively a northern version, locating it north of Jerusalem near Ramah, modern Al-Ram, and a southern narrative locating it close to Bethlehem. In rabbinical tradition the duality is resolved by using two different terms in Hebrew to designate these different localities. In the Hebrew version given in Genesis, Rachel and Jacob journey"
"then that it was Leah. Therefore, God rewarded Rachel with having Saul among her descendants. Rabbi Haggai said in Rabbi Isaac's name that all of the Matriarchs were prophets. Rabbi Helbo quoted Rabbi Jonathan to teach that the firstborn should have come from Rachel, as says, ""These are the generations of Jacob, Joseph,"" but Leah prayed for mercy before Rachel did. On account of Rachel's modesty, however, God restored the rights of the firstborn to Rachel's son Joseph from Leah's son Reuben. To teach what caused Leah to anticipate Rachel with her prayer for mercy, Rav taught that Leah's eyes"
"the other three being Chileab, Jesse and Amram. According to the Hebrew Bible, Benjamin's name arose when Jacob deliberately changed the name ""Benoni"", the original name of Benjamin, since Benoni was an allusion to Rachel's dying just after she had given birth, as it means ""son of my pain"". Textual scholars regard these two names as fragments of naming narratives coming from different sources - one being the Jahwist and the other being the Elohist. Unusually for one of the 12 tribes of Israel, the Bible does not explain the etymology of Benjamin's name. Medieval commentator Rashi gives two different"
"of the nurse Deborah ""below Bethel"" from , as well as to the passage about the oak of Tabor being near Rachel's tomb in 1 Samuel 10. Qubur Bani Isra'il Qubur Bene Isra'in or Qubur Bani Isra'il (""lit."" ""Tombs of the Children of Israel""), are four, formerly five, huge stone structures dated to the Middle Bronze Age, which rise from a rocky plateau overlooking Wadi Qelt in the West Bank, about 3.5 miles northeast of Jerusalem, between Hizma and Geva Binyamin along Highway 437. Clermont-Ganneau, followed by Macalister, identified the site with the tomb of the biblical matriarch Rachel based"
"in the Gospel of Matthew (), where it is stated that Jeremiah's prophecy about Rachel received ""a second accomplishment"" in the slaughter of boy children carried out when Herod was king: Ramah in Benjamin Ramah was a city in ancient Israel in the land allocated to the tribe of Benjamin, whose names means ""height"". It was located near Gibeon and Mizpah to the West, Gibeah to the South, and Geba to the East. It has been identified with modern Er-Ram, about 8 km north of Jerusalem. The city is first mentioned in , near Gibeah of Benjamin. In the Book"
"heading this list, followed by Rachel's sons with the names of the concubines' sons interposed between the two sons of Rachel. Unfortunately, the meaning of the Hebrew names for the minerals, given by the masoretic text, are not clear, and though the Greek names for them in the Septuagint are more clear, some scholars believe that it cannot be completely relied on for this matter because the breastplate had ceased to be in use by the time the Septuagint was created, and several Greek names for various gems have changed meaning between the classical era and modern times. However, although"
"Book of Jeremiah, Rachel is depicted as a woman of large proportions, protecting two children and surveying the horizon as though waiting for others. Ramat Rachel Ramat Rachel (, ""lit."" Rachel's Heights) is a kibbutz in central Israel. An enclave within Jerusalem's municipal boundaries and overlooking Bethlehem and Rachel's Tomb (for which the kibbutz is named), it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In it had a population of . According to archaeologists, Ramat Rachel ""replaced Jerusalem as the economic and political hub of the southern highlands"" in ancient times. The kibbutz was established in 1926 by"
"Rachel's diadem and complained to her husband. He responded, ""Would you have done for me what Rabbi Akiva's wife did for him? Rabbi Akiva's wife sold the braids of her hair so that he could study Torah, and she earned that ornament"". Rachel and Akiva had two daughters and one son. One of their daughters was married to Ben Azzai, a 2nd-century Tanna. Rachel's date of death is unknown. Her Yom Hillula (annual commemoration of death) has been arbitrarily set on the third day of Passover. The Talmud states that after Rachel's death, Akiva married for the third time, to"
"Rebecca Rebecca appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. According to biblical tradition, Rebecca was the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram, also called Aram-Naharaim, and sister of Laban the Aramean. She was the grand daughter of Milcah (Sarahs sister according to Talmudic teachings) and Nahor (brother of Abraham). Rebecca and Isaac were one of the four couples that some believe are buried in the Cave of the Patriarchs, the other three being Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, and Jacob and Leah. After the Binding of Isaac,"
"which is Bethlehem"" was added to distinguish it from a similar toponym Ephrathah in the Bethlehem region. Some consider as certain, however, that Rachel's tomb lay to the north, in Benjamite, not in Judean territory, and that the Bethlehem gloss represents a Judean appropriation of the grave, originally in the north, to enhance Judah's prestige. At 1 Samuel 10:2, Rachel's tomb is located in the 'territory of Benjamin at Zelzah.' In the period of the monarchy down to the exile, it would follow, Rachel's tomb was thought to lie in Ramah. The indications for this are based on 1 Sam"
"in each of these passages. A different spelling of the name, Rachab (as transliterated in the King James translation of the Greek ""Ῥαχάβ"") is mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew as one of the ancestors of Jesus (). She married Salmon of the tribe of Judah and was the mother of Boaz. Most other English Bibles transcribe her name as Rahab, suggesting an attempt to differentiate between the figures. At least one apologist has argued that linguistic and textual evidence suggests that the two women were not the same. Rahab Rahab (; Arabic: رحاب, a vast space of a land)"
"earlier about her age at marriage). Rebecca Rebecca appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. According to biblical tradition, Rebecca was the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram, also called Aram-Naharaim, and sister of Laban the Aramean. She was the grand daughter of Milcah (Sarahs sister according to Talmudic teachings) and Nahor (brother of Abraham). Rebecca and Isaac were one of the four couples that some believe are buried in the Cave of the Patriarchs, the other three being Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, and Jacob and"
"Ruth (given name) Ruth ( ""rut"", ) is a common female given name noted from Ruth the eponymous heroine of the eighth book of the Old Testament. Not evidently in regular usage among the ancient Hebrews, the name of the Biblical figure Ruth is generally equated with the Hebraic רְעוּת (re'ut): companion, which meaning accords with the character of the Biblical Ruth who despite being widowed chooses to remain with her mother-in-law Naomi (to whom Ruth speaks the iconic quote: ""Whither thou goest, I will go."") Ruth first occurs as a given name in Europe and the British Isles at"
"a prime example of a wife who encourages her husband to pursue Torah study and is willing to make personal sacrifices to achieve that goal. The story of Rachel's marriage to Akiva and their subsequent lives appears in three classical sources. They are: Rachel's name does not appear in the Talmud, which refers to her as the daughter of Kalba Savu'a. Her name is found in the aggadic work ""Avot of Rabbi Natan"". Ilan postulates that the latter work may have derived her name from two Talmudic proverbs printed at the end of the story of Rachel and Akiva in"
"American girls for the year 2014 ranks the name Ruth at #314. Ruth (given name) Ruth ( ""rut"", ) is a common female given name noted from Ruth the eponymous heroine of the eighth book of the Old Testament. Not evidently in regular usage among the ancient Hebrews, the name of the Biblical figure Ruth is generally equated with the Hebraic רְעוּת (re'ut): companion, which meaning accords with the character of the Biblical Ruth who despite being widowed chooses to remain with her mother-in-law Naomi (to whom Ruth speaks the iconic quote: ""Whither thou goest, I will go."") Ruth first"
"the names Job (""assailant"") and Barak (""lightning""). There are no occupational names in the Bible corresponding to Anglo-Saxon names like Smith of England or Müller of Germany, but names taken from objects are found, especially among females. The name Rebecca (""Rivka"") seems to be derived from a sheep-rope, Peninnah from pearl, and Keren-happuch from a box of face-paint. Abstract names seem to have been given primarily to women, such as Manoah (""rest"") and Michal (""power""). Jacobs gives eighty-four names (applied to 120 different persons) derived from animals and plants. Leah is generally known as a word for cow, and Rachel"
"Rachel was the daughter of Kalba Savu'a, one of the three richest men living in Jerusalem prior to the destruction of the Second Temple. ""Kalba Savu'a"" literally means ""satiated dog""; it was a tribute to his generosity, for anyone who came to his doorstep as hungry as a dog left with a full belly. His only child, Rachel, was a modest, accomplished young woman who could have had her pick of any young, wealthy Torah scholar. However, she set her eye on Akiva, one of her father's shepherds, who was uneducated. Perceiving his modesty and fine character traits, she asked"
"kidnap"" (Sanhedrin 86a). The Hebrew word translated “steal” is “gneva” The Hebrew Bible contains a number of prohibitions of stealing and descriptions of negative consequences for this sin. The Genesis narrative describes Rachel as having stolen household goods from her father Laban when she fled from Laban's household with her husband Jacob and their children. Laban hotly pursued Jacob to recover his goods, and intended to do him harm, but Rachel hid the stolen items and avoided detection. Exodus 21:16 and Deuteronomy 24:7 apply the same Hebrew word to kidnapping (stealing a man) and demands the death penalty for such"
"be free of Esau's domination, but God assured him that at the End of Days, Edom too would come falling down. In the morning, Jacob awakened and continued on his way to Haran, after naming the place where he had spent the night ""Bethel,"" ""God's house."" Arriving in Haran, Jacob saw a well where shepherds were gathering their flocks to water them and met Laban's younger daughter, Rachel, Jacob's first cousin; she was working as a shepherdess. He loved her immediately, and after spending a month with his relatives, asked for her hand in marriage in return for working seven"
"her. On the wedding night, however, Laban switches Leah for Rachel. Later Laban claims that it is uncustomary to give the younger daughter away in marriage before the older one (Genesis 29:16-30). Laban offers to give Rachel to Jacob in marriage in return for another seven years of work (Genesis 29:27). Jacob accepts the offer and marries Rachel after the week-long celebration of his marriage to Leah. Leah is the mother of six of Jacob's sons, including his first four (Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah), and later two more (Issachar and Zebulun), and a daughter (Dinah). According to the scriptures,"
"from Shechem to Hebron, a short distance from Ephrath, which is glossed as Bethlehem (35:16-21, 48:7). She dies on the way giving birth to Benjamin: """"And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day."""" — Genesis 35:19-20 Tom Selwyn notes that R. A. S. Macalister, the most authoritative voice on the topography of Rachel's tomb, advanced the view in 1912 that the identification with Bethlehem was based on a copyist's mistake. The Judean scribal gloss ""(Ephrath, )"